MSDOS memory FREE function

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From: Dennis Vadura
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 1990 13:57

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Does anyone know how to get the INT 21H, function 0x49H (free dos memory
block) to coalesce adjacent free blocks.  I don't see this happening on my
DOS 3.2 box, and really detest the idea of manually walking the chain of
allocated memory blocks and coalescing all the free ones into a single long
block.

-dennis
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From: dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura)
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Subject: MSDOS memory FREE function
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Date: 9 Oct 90 13:57:41 GMT
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